Question

I want to turn this text:

She’s saying it’s time to ‘find a solution’.

into this text:

She’s Saying It’s Time To ‘Find A Solution’.

I’m currently using both ucwords and this ucwords-related function to make capital letters after single quotes: (I found in the comment section of php.net.)

function ucwordsMore ($str) {
    $str = str_replace("' ","'",ucwords(str_replace("'","' ",$str)));
    return $str;
}

However, this function results in this:

She’S Saying It’S Time To ‘Find A Solution’.

How can I best keep letters after apostrophes small, and letters after single quotes big?

Answer 1

It usually works with a bit of pattern matching:

$str = preg_replace("/\w[\w']*/e", "ucwords('\\0')", $str);

\w is okay for ASCII letters and numbers. For international text use \pL and the /u modifier.